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Posting: Cox’s Bazar
Job Type: (Tem. Fixed Term) up to 31st December 2018

[Only Bangladeshi national are eligible to apply]

Salary & Benefits: BDT. 1,722,303 per annum (13 months) gross with other benefits as per Oxfam policy

We are urgently looking for a dynamic team player who will work with the Emergency Response team under Oxfam in Bangladesh.

Responsible to provide lifesaving integrated WaSH & emergency assistance to Rohingya refugees and affected host communities in camp, spontaneous/makeshift settlement in cox’s bazaar district of Bangladesh. Also provide technical capacity to Oxfam & Partners WaSH responses

SKILLS AND COMPETENCE:

• A suitable qualification in any discipline relating to Public Health Engineering is the necessary educational background. Experience could substitute for a formal qualification, but not vice versa.
• Most importantly, a minimum of 5 years’ practical experience in water, sanitation and hygiene promotion programmers. It is essential that some of this should have been in rapid onset emergency response programmers.
• The post holder should have a good understanding of the public health needs of poor rural and urban communities and of appropriate ways of tackling them.
• The post holder must be aware of and sensitive to the particular needs of women in this context.
• Ability & working experience in complex insecure context.
• Well developed interpersonal and team skills and proven ability to be flexible in demanding situations.
• Sympathy with the aims and objectives of Oxfam, Commitment to humanitarian principles and action and to Oxfam’s equal opportunity and gender policies.
• Fluent in English writing and speaking to a professional level.

Useful Information

Due to the urgency of these role, we will be reviewing applications and interviewing candidate in advance of the closing date. For this reason, interested candidates are asked to submit their application as soon as possible.

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